This product is the root of the perennial herbaceous plant Peony Root (Paeonia lactiflora Pall.) or Sichuan Red Peony Root (Paeonia veitchii Lynch) of the japanese buttercup herb family. Produced in most parts of the country. Excavated in spring and autumn, dried and sliced. Use raw or fried.

[Property]

bitter, slightly cold. act on liver channel.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and cooling blood, resolving stasis to stop pain.

[Indications]

1. Used to heat nutrient-blood, macula and papule. This product is bitter and cold, mainly enters the liver meridian, is good at clearing liver heat, removes stagnant blood heat, and has the functions of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating spots. Used to treat warm disease, heat into nutrient-blood, macula and papule, dark purple, and blood-heat vomiting, often used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root and Rehmannia root can be used together.
2. Used for amenorrhea stuffiness, bruises, injuries, carbuncles and sores. This product is bitter and has the effects of stimulating menstruation, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating stuffiness, and stagnation and pain relief. Treats blood heat stasis, amenorrhea dysmenorrheal, often used together with motherwort herb, Salvia, Shiny Bugleweed to treat blood stasis stuffiness , can be used with Peach Kernel, Peach Kernel, Cinnamon Twig, such as Cinnamon Twig and Poria Pill ; used to treat bruises, bruises and pain, often used together with frankincense, myrrh, Dragon's Blood Resin , to heal injuries and relieve pain. It is used to treat heat toxin congestion, carbuncles and sores. It is often used synonymously with Lonicera, Forsythia and Gardenia.
3. For red eye nebula disorder. This product can clear liver fire and resolving stasis to stop pain. It is often used with Chrysanthemum Flower, Scouring Rush Herb, Prunella and the like. .

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Mainly pathogenic abdominal pain, removes blood impediment, breaks solid accumulation, Hanre hernia, relieves pain, and facilitates urination."
2. Diannan Bencao: "Reducing spleen fire, descending qi, promoting blood flow, breaking blood stasis, dispersing blood clots, relieving abdominal pain, and attacking carbuncles."
3. Bencao Beiyao: "The main treatment of Red Peony Root is similar to that of Peony Root. It can especially purge liver fire, disperse bad blood, treat abdominal pain, blood impediment, amenorrhea bloody defecation, carbuncle red eye, and can relieve blood stagnation."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~15g.

[Precaution]

Blood cold amenorrhea should not be used. Counter false hellebore .

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Peony Root glycosides, peony sol, Peony Root flower glycosides, benzoic acid, tannins, resins, volatile oils, β-sitosterol, triterpenes, etc.

1. It can expand the coronary stirred pulse, improve the ability to withstand hypoxia, have anti-platelet aggregation, anti-thrombosis, anti-experimental myocardial ischemia, improve microcirculation and reduce portal hypertension.
2. It has antispasmodic effect.
3. Peony Root glycosides have sedative, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic and anticonvulsant, anti-ulcer and antihypertensive effects.
4. It has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on a variety of pathogenic microorganisms.